What Exactly is Cloud Web Hosting?

What is cloud web hosting actually? The word 'cloud' appears to be very modern in today's computing, Internet and web hosting terms. Yet, only a select few actually can tell what cloud hosting is. Possibly it is a clever idea to inform yourself about cloud web hosting services. To render a very long tale short, we will first reveal to you what cloud hosting is not.

1. Cloud Web Hosting is Not Confined to a Remote Data Storage Solely.

1. Delivering a remote data storage solution, which involves one single file storage appliance for all customers, does not convert any given hosting service provider into a genuine cloud web hosting vendor.

The cPanel web hosting suppliers call the ability to furnish remote data storage solutions a cloud web hosting solution. So far there is nothing wrong with the cloud classification, but... we are discussing website hosting services, not remote data storage solutions for private or business purposes. There's constantly one "but", isn't there? It's not sufficient to name a shared hosting solution, driven by a one-single-server web hosting environment, just like cPanel, a "cloud web hosting" service. This is so because the remaining fractions of the entire web hosting platform must be operating in precisely the same way - this does not refer only to the remote disk storage. The rest of the services involved in the whole web hosting procedure also need to be remote, isolated and "clouded". And that's quite tough. Very few web hosting distributors can really do it.

2. It Involves Domains, Mailboxes, Databases, File Transfer Protocols, Web Hosting CPs, and so on.

Cloud web hosting is not confined to a remote file storage exclusively. We are talking about a web hosting solution, serving a lot of domain names, web sites, electronic mail aliases, and so on, are we not?

To call a hosting service a "cloud web hosting" one calls for a lot more than providing merely remote file storage mounts (or probably physical servers). The email server(s) need to be dedicated just to the email associated services. Performing nothing else than these particular tasks. There might be only one single or perchance a whole pack of electronic mail servers, based on the total load generated. To have a true cloud web hosting service, the remote database servers should be functioning as one, irrespective of their actual amount. Doing nothing different. The same is valid for the customers' Control Panels, the File Transfer Protocol, etc.

3. There are Cloud Domain Name Servers (DNSs) as well.

The DNSs (Domain Name Servers) of a genuine cloud web hosting distributor will support multiple server farm facility locations on different continents.

Here's an instance of a DNS of a genuine cloud web hosting plans provider:

dns1.unlimitedresellerwebhosting.com

dns2.unlimitedresellerwebhosting.com

If such a DNS is provided by your hosting company, it's not a guarantee that there is a cloud web hosting environment in use, but you can definitely be certain when you see a Domain Name Server such as the one beneath:

dns658.hostgator.com

dns659.hostgator.com

that there isn't any cloud hosting platform. This sort of Domain Name Server plainly reveals that the hosting platform in use is one-server based. Possibly it's cPanel. cPanel is a one-single-server web hosting solution and maintains a 98+ percent market share. In cPanel's case, a single server is responsible for all hosting services (web, e-mail, DNS, databases, FTP, hosting CP(s), website files, and so on).

Remote File Storage - The Perverted Characterization of Cloud Web Hosting.

So, a cloud web hosting solution is not restricted solely to a remote file storage solution, as lots of hosting corporations wish it was. Unluckily for them, if that was the case, most of the file web hosting vendors would have been classified as cloud web hosting ones a long time back! They are not classified as such, because they plainly supply file web hosting solutions, not cloud hosting services. The file hosting platform is really quite plain, when compared to the web hosting platform. The remote disk storage platform is not a cloud web hosting platform. It cannot be, as it's just one simple constituent of the entire cloud hosting platform. There's a lot more to be found in the cloud web hosting platform: the hosting Control Panel cloud, the database clouds (MySQL, PostgreSQL), the DNS cloud, the FTP cloud, the mail cloud and... in the foreseeable future, probably a couple of brand new clouds we presently are not informed about will show up out of the blue.